skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that was always the case. I joined Quora very early, and I have never had an account on theFacebook.

I did, however, recently delete my Quora account after I didn't like what they were doing with privacy (Lack thereof)

I haven't been back, and while I thought there was some good conversations - the UX at Quora is atrocious. I had a hard time sort wheat from chaff in their feed, the visual differentiation between textual elements in the feed emphasized the wrong stuff. Their mobile view, desktop view and native mobile client view all had separate experiences ad visually didn't match.

There are a lot more things I can say about the UX/UI - but in the end, I am happy I deleted my account.
what's steam's cut on these apps? 30%?
One of the things we can do about it is highlight incidents so that there is pressure to change. Do people complain when yet another post about a bunch of badly-hashed passwords getting hacked pops up? Nope, because those posts are the best way to convince people to properly hash passwords.

As for what to do about it, step one: don't use this kind of crap in your own presentations. Step two: if you see someone else doing so, protest. Step three: go out of your way to read works by women, listen to women speak and otherwise diversify your professional environment.

There are at least as many posts made about things to do about this. Check out the Ada Initiative, for example. However, if you read through the comments on this article and every other you'll probably notice that many people don't think there is a problem. When solutions are proposed, as they often are, they are routinely ignored because people are unwilling to accept that this behavior is a problem, is a pattern or is part of a broader social dynamic.

It is not just about shaming individuals; it is about addressing the underlying assumptions that developers are male, women are the sexual objects developers desire and it is somehow hilarious to point this out. That is impossible until people do, as you do, accept that it is a systematic issue and not an isolated incident that should be ignored.

Have some patience for the people who are slightly slower; when they all come around, there won't be any more of these to post here, much less one a week.
Thats a cool suggestion. Thanks
Also, the philosophy of PHP is a batteries-included approach of bundling everything so you rarely need an external library. Both of these things seem fundamentally at odds with mobile development, but who knows, maybe they can chisel something out.
>Android is free

As I noted in another comment in this story, this is wrong. AOSP is open and free, but it is not very useful without access to the half million apps in the Google Play store, Maps, Navigation, Youtube, Google Now etc.

>In other words, OEM WinPhone users are already cornered into producing only the stock vanilla experience, and now they're competing against the platform owners themselves who are allowed to break whatever rules necessary to gain market share.

Perhaps in the future, but right now the Microsoft Surface runs the exact same software as the equivalent OEM devices.

>There is also another key difference to Nexus: the Nexus phones have never been heavily marketed, and even till now are the tools of developers and industry enthusiasts. I imagine if Google ever took the Nexus mass-market they'd see much more blowback from OEMs.

Except for advertising it on the most heavily trafficked site in the world?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57501546-94/googles-nexus-7...

Also, I don't see how the Nexus is not competing with the OEMs like you say. Where are the $199 Android 7" tablets from the OEMs? Why does the Galaxy Tab 7 cost $250?

What's common among the three tablets in that price range? Kindle Fire, Nexus 7 and a Nook ? They're all subsidized by the ecosystem, which Acer, Samsung, HTC, Lenovo, Viewsonic etc. cannot duplicate and compete with.
> PHP's killer app is the LAMP stack and $5 hosting.

$5? Try $0, how many ISPs provided 20~100MB of hosting with PHP and a MySQL instance to any of their client for no additional charge? Around here, pretty much all of them did.

Hell, just look at things like that: http://www.000webhost.com/ PHP, MySQL, 1.5GB space and 100GB/months bandwidth for $0. Want Ruby? Python? Perl? It'll be $5.
I find it interesting that nearly all the software listed, initially, seems to be art related. ArtRage Studio Pro just ended up on my wish list, because that looks like tremendous fun.

Now, if only I could easily install these apps outside the steam folder. My main drive is getting full.
> I'm wondering if they provide any meaningful savings vs a cheap programmable thermostat.

In my experience, yes. I left town for two weeks and forgot to turn on away mode. If I'd had a cheap one, I'd have paid for two weeks of A/C keeping my house at 72. Instead, I was able to remotely tell it to let the house get up to 85 before kicking in.

Auto-away does the same thing on a smaller scale on a near-daily basis for me, as well. We've got a pretty unsettled schedule, so it's a wonderful feature.
Obituary for E.P. Wilson, gunrunner and manager of CIA front companies.
Wow, we can certainly conclude that conformity is the lowest acute energy state of this system in motion. An apt metaphor for mass social behavior; it eventually sounds frighteningly like soldiers marching.
No One's Complaining About Uber--Except the Taxi Commission
I'd seriously consider doing kickstarter too -- once you've got 250-500 preorders outside kickstarter, and popularity on HN, you should be in a great position to have an "overfunded" kickstarter. Yes, they take a cut, but the exposure from kickstarter is probably worth it -- just bump prices 10% if you must.

I know I buy a lot of gadgets I might not otherwise know about due to seeing them in my activity feed on kickstarter.

Seemed to work well for Pebble...
Lessons in Growth Hacking a Skillshare Class
Same, I think it looks like they bought a bunch of expensive furniture for a renovated-in-the-90s-rambler. The juxtaposition and lack of dominant style isn't very appealing.
Yes, I fail to see what Quora is other than a cliquey silicon valley Stack Overflow Q&A site which actively doesn't want more users because it acts protective over content, demands signups and generally acts in a stupid manner rather than just giving me what I want. I don't see a single thing it does better than Stack Overflow, and Stack Overflow is public without the sign-in stuff. Of the 30-40 times I've hit Quora from web searches it's had useful information for me only once. What a load of hype. It certainly seems to stroke some important egos though, so they can play with it for as long as they like while the rest of the world moves on.

Edit: grammar/typos
How to Use Sex to Perform Better
What you need to know about Google Tag Manager
This information is not publicly disclosed and differs from developer to developer and is based on sales volume amongst other things.
Simply pathetic... The founder of Craig list should rather provide an open API instead of raising walls around his website and suing everybody he can.
Btw, Cedar now supports Ruby 1.8.7 if that helps.
True. I'm not even sure he tried to find outside investment.
In the Bay Area, I think most homes still have POTS lines. I wasn't aware most lines weren't already. Where are POTS lines no longer available?
They have their 8X and 8S devices which was a partnership with HTC to make custom phones designed for Windows Phone 8.

Google tried to make their own phone with the S, etc but at this point the model that has worked for them in terms of bringing a phone to market and getting carriers even with the Nexus 7 on board has been working with a manufacturer to partner on building a phone rather than building it themselves. When Google built the Nexus One they only sold it online and unsubsidised and it flopped.

The question is, can Microsoft bring a smartphone to market with good margins, carrier deals, etc. When Windows Phone hasn't had much of a response from carriers thus far. It's a different game to a tablet and their relationships with Nokia and HTC don't seem to signal that they want to build a surface phone.
I used to work at last.fm. While there's a region in the middle where that's true, as you get to a scale where mature technologies don't cut it my feeling is costs then grow faster-than-linearly. E.g. while your data fits into a single database your cost is obviously linear in the number of users, but once you start having to split it you've now got O(n^2) pair interactions to worry about.
You want to get really rich? Integrate with the Flat Stanley industry.
Perhaps you understand TypeScript better than I do. My rough understanding is that TypeScript is JavaScript with what's essentially inline JSDoc. The compiler is just there to give hints and warnings. Is this right?
> Now, if only I could easily install these apps outside the steam folder. My main drive is getting full.

The current Steam beta has support for multiple installation folders. It's a little rough right now, but it seems like something they plan on polishing up and releasing eventually.

Source and more info: http://www.neoseeker.com/news/20791-latest-steam-beta-allows...
I think we're just looking at it from a different altitude.
Adapting MapReduce for realtime apps
Why on earth did you imagine that it is a problem for me? I simply wanted to know what its function was.
Shown HN: AMD-compatible jQuery plugin template
Lenovo Computers, Soon To Be Made In America
Last programming book I read cover-to-cover was my own, in 2008.
We're using lockitron at the apartments we stay in San Francisco. It works like a charm. Thinking about getting one for back home :)
I use steammover to move files between ssd and larger hard drive. Works really well. http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover
For an article whose title is about PHP moving to mobile, it's quite disappointing that they literally spent only 3 sentences on it... at the end. And didn't even say anything worth reporting. Link bait.
There are limits to Apple's leverage in the mobile marketplace. When the original iPhone was introduced, they got AT&T to implement Visual Voicemail and ship the phone without a carrier branding logo, but not much else. They couldn't even get AT&T to agree to ship the phones without a subsidy lock, despite the fact that there was no subsidy for the first few months (nor could you legitimately unlock an iPhone associated with AT&T ever until earlier this year).

At this point, analysts and investors expect Apple to ship over 5 million iPhones in the first weekend of availability. Resistance by a single carrier (there are 3 now, and that's just in the USA) will seriously impact that number. Moreover, carriers have other serious challengers at their disposal and are pushing them hard (e.g. Samsung Galaxy S3).

Asking a carrier to promote a phone is one thing. Demanding they overhaul their entire network is probably asking too much.
Announcement on the future of Google Refine
After Microsoft's announcement of the Surface Tablet... people had to see this coming. I'm not debating the merits of doing this or not doing this... but if MS was willing to make their own tablet, surely they were willing to make their own phone.

What's interesting is the difference between the mobile and PC market. With PCs - there is no other (realistic) OS for OEM makers to use. I mean, they just have to keep using Windows. For mobile handset makers... they can (and might) move over to Android. Interesting gamble on MS's part.

Personally, I'm excited. I think MS has received the wakeup call that they need.
Glad to see that is coming soon. I have some symlinks set up in my Steam directory to keep apps on different drives, but something built in would certainly be easier.
Yeah, this proposition had me scratching my head, as well. I guess the OP's method is, in some sense, easier, but it doesn't strike me as easy. When I imagine easy, I imagine ad-hoc DSLs in Ruby or (dare I say it) Lisp.
Branch Rethinks The Social Cliches That Wrack Twitter And Facebook
That's because CDs, as everybody knows, just don't deserve any better. Vinyl, meanwhile, practically calls out to be not only protected, but loved.
After the new $10M in cash it is $20M/3,000,000, so they are worth $6.66/share
Games getting bumped below the fold by software [1] is probably going to make some game devs upset. Hopefully Valve comes up with a solution for that.

I can see there being tension, though, because Valve wants to drive their traditional audience to software, but doing so may cannibalize impulse game buys that might have previously happened from a game being on the first page.

[1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1643240/newreleases.png
Sure: http://www.girlscouts.org/research/publications/stem/generat...

"Nearly half(47%) of all girls say thatthey would feel uncomfortable being the only girl in a group or class.
57% of all girls say that if they went into a STEM career,they’d have to work harder than a man just to be taken seriously"

Or http://ilabs.uw.edu/sites/default/files/Cheryan_Meltzoff_Kim...

"Statistical analyses indicated that gender disparities in interest and anticipated success
in the stereotypically designed classroom were mediated by women’s lower sense of belonging in that
environment."

Next time, do your own homework.
You don't need #pragma once if you don't include .h files in other .h files, or if you only have a single .h file that includes other .h files. This may sound unrealistic but there are real projects that work that way. You probably do need #include.
Our customers have been asking for the ability to quickly edit their customer profiles for awhile now, so this is easily one of the most exciting features we're released so far.

Happy to answer any questions.
Are developers noting (I assume) similarities between it and some stock theme actually criticizing the theme, or are they criticizing the designers in question for not being original (whatever that may be worth)?

I suspect some artistic types may mistakenly place too much importance on originality. Originality is certainly important, but not in that way.
used to do mklink to get specific steam-appfolders onto ssd if loading times were too long.
To their defense (in the comments): "Yeah, it’s a valid point. We’re using a plugin on our blog called Social that we built with the folks at Crowd Favorite because we saw our blog comments heading to Facebook and Twitter. For blog comments, we’re willing to suffer the social logins so people can talk to us in the channels they’re accustomed. The blog is at the heart of our community, and communities gather in social spaces.
But logging into or signing up for the app is another use case all together. That’s where we feel like we’re giving up too much control. That’s what we’re trying to spark a conversation around with this post."
I had a lot of fun with it, and the only way I could share myy creation was to screenshot.... Personally I look at it as another revenue model. Make a model of Keene Reeves and sell it to his fans etc.

https://plus.google.com/116059998563577101552/posts/Up1kKojQ...
This isn't exactly the right place, but I don't know where else to ask this.

When people argue for static types (whether optional as in TypeScript or mandatory), one of the main reasons is "tooling". Why?

I know that writing a "go to definition" function for your IDE is impossible to do 100% correctly, when types are dynamic. But I would've thought it'd be pretty easy to do a 99% implementation, which rarely fails if you don't deliberately write code to fool it. Right?
Just to be clear, token - does the supervisor have anything up his sleeve with "flawless?" The story that it took years, for example, to produce a "flawless" binary search isn't as stupefying when you consider that many of the flaws dealt with things like integer overflow and floating point precision. If this guy wants this to work on a 4-bit microcontroller, for example, getting to 100 is going to be significantly trickier than what many would consider a straightforward problem.
The automatically-lock-when-shut behavior of doors is an extremely weak protection anyway, so one should always lock the door with a key anyway (this at least prevents the most trivial circumvention, i.e., open the door with a plastic card).

Interestingly I seem to use more or less the converse of your method, also with great success: Always lock the apartment door from the inside. Whenever I leave the apartment, I therefore am forced to take the keys.

I suppose the most important thing is to be consistent with ones behavior, so that a subconscious habit can develop.
I am looking forward to buying hats for my photo editing software.
> 1) We are aware of BitBucket; it's a great service, but it limits us on the

> number of collaborators we can have, thereby stifling productive group work.

> As college students, we're always collaborating, be it for assignments or our

> own side-projects, and BitBucket doesn't make sense for this.

Bitbucket provides free, unlimited hosting for students. There's no limit on the number of collaborators. All you have to do is validate your university email address and you'll go from 5 users for free to the unlimited educational plan.
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Custom HTML, CSS and jQuery website template
In this article we’re going to design and implement a unique page layout. Our main logo and navigation bar will be locked and fixed onto the left side of the screen, and the larger right side of the screen will be scrollable and hold our main content.
The market problems faced by a phone and a tablet can be pretty distinct. If Microsoft is making a Windows Phone, I hope it serves to drive innovation and platform success, instead of just scaring away OEMs and cannibalizing what nascent platform there is.

If it's a foolhardy or hubristic attempt to grab imagined profits without consideration for carrier and other channel and customer obstacles, well... I'd regret the untimely / early demise of an innovative platform.
Leak of Multiple University Databases
Losethos is now SparrowOS
The best speculation I've seen is that someone (Yahoo?) is buying Quora, with onerous earn-out provisions (1/2/3/4?), and letting Charlie leave now would accelerate his vesting compared to remaining until acquisition and then leaving, if he didn't want to work for the acquirer.

I've met both Adam and Charlie (and Marc and much of the rest of the Quora team), and I can't see Adam/Charlie having a falling out over any personal or professional issues as a likely cause.

The weirdest thing IMO is that Charlie has totally disappeared from online (FB, Quora, etc.). Either it's to avoid being asked questions, or some kind of personal issue. Either way, I wish him the best.
Apple Store Genius Trying to Disproove Scuffgate
If you want to implement it in a general way you still need to know how javascript supports closures though.
Right, sorry, that's what I meant to indicate. Should've quoted the part I was responding to.
The keycodes are pretty easy to guess. Regular users will only ever enter the correct codes so if you look carefully at the keypad you can see which digits have been pressed. Most likely there will only be 4 of the 10 possible digits used. I've actually encountered keypads where the order didn't actually matter so you could get in in seconds.
A Warning about Customer Lifetime Value
And sadly, he's still hellbanned, now with a different name: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS
In line with the people talking about giving these as gifts: what about the new Facebook gift platform?

I'm not totally sure I'd trust myself to give one of these as a gift, though, as I'd end up either creating a likeness of someone that they didn't like, or a completely narcissistic gift of my own likeness. But, hey, best of luck--I bet there are plenty of people who think otherwise!
Was this a YC company?
Well, if you want to go back to London, there are plenty of Java jobs there. The entire financial industry runs on Java (well, mostly, among other things). So, Java definitely is the safer bet.

Having said that, iOS development might be more fun. So also consider your own interests and aspirations!
11 commandments to kickstart your life
if you re-did the maths with the same guy buying 1,000,000 shares at $10 a share then they'd still end up with a controlling share in the business (and the business would indeed be worth $20M since it was worth $10M before and now has an extra $10M in cash, meaning that shares would still be worth $10 each).

so i'm not sure why the original example needed to place an odd value on the newly issued shares. as far as i can tell, it just muddies things.

i wrote this on rights issues, which is kind-of related (works through a similar kind of argument, except this time framed so people keep the same fractional shares) - http://acooke.org/cute/EnersisEnd0.html [edit: just fixed url] (i'm no expert, i was just interested in that particular case in the chilean press recently).

in short: you don't need to screw anyone over. it can just be that the person putting most money in ends up with most of the ownership.

the two key points are: (1) people need to agree on the company's value before; (2) the company gets the cash (and so its value goes up). of course, that cash won't sit in the bank - but it's the company's responsibility (and the investor's hope) that it is spent in a way that increases the value of the company.
Typecast adds CSS editor to it's in-browser design tool
One of the things I've always wondered was would Airtime have worked if Parker had decided to cap initial investment at a few hundred thousand dollars or less. He would have failed quickly, he would have known if it was a real product, and he might have got devs willing to go for equity (not the riskiest gamble as startups go and would have bought more commitment than a million dollars up front). Anyone tying their fate to a startup would not leave after launching the product.

It always felt like Parker tried to buy success or worse, didn't even want to buy success just wanted to buy a hot startup as a lifestyle choice.
It may be better implemented as a firefox/chrome extension?

Given that the majority of sites will not likely have a tl;dr I am unlikely to click the bookmarklet every time I open a web page.
Wow. That was quick. Good move Valve!
It definitely benefits Nokia and MS to have more partners onboard with Windows Phone 8. I really liked the look of the 920, but I was worried it would never reach a critical mass of developer support with only Nokia building devices. If they could get one more major partner they could be a viable third platform, the way RIM was before they tanked. Unfortunately, Motorola is a no-go because of the Google acquisition, Samsung is enjoying great success with Android, and Sony is ... Sony. HTC already had a strong history of WP 6 devices before Android came along, and they're losing traction to Samsung in this space, so it makes sense that they would look to Microsoft for help.

Depending on how well it sells, MS might be solving the problem of finding a third partner by building a line of branded devices themselves.
Are phones as crackable as they used to be?

I remember reading stories about how if you leave your bluetooth on, you're basically leaving your phone wide open. These days though, most phones require four digit passcodes and what I assume are fail2ban-like features. Am I wrong to assume that, or does it not matter for other reasons?

I know TV shows like Person of Interest use technology more as a plot device than as a display of possibility, but the idea of forced pairing was a thing at some point, wasn't it?
We use Lockitron at the 500startups offices. It worked well most of the time. The few times it didn't work was very annoying and I had to rely on someone else to open the door for me (from the inside). As long as you have a secondary option for opening the door, it's a great product.
Oh. I get it. It's the new JScript.
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